More and more online games have broad communities that play them on different platforms. This may be new territory for some developers but for MMORPG veterans, they've been solving this particular problem for several years, and have lessons for newer developers in the game.

At GDC 2018 Eric Cleaver, EM Stock, Linda Carlson, John Bergman and Troy Hewitt discuss the nuances of managing communities for games that are available on multiple online platforms platforms.

It's a useful panel that you can watch up in the video above, or for free on the GDC YouTube channel.

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